User:Philosopher

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If you are aware of any former Iowa legislators who are in the news,
let me know and I'll try to get their Wiki-article going.

I'm an evangelical Christian from Boone, Iowa, currently in college, and majoring in Political Science and Philosophy.

1 To Do — Iowa Legislators
2 Custom Watchlists I Use
3 Templates I've Created
4 Talk Page Banners I Use
5 Template Test Area
6 Notable Edits
7 Quotable Quote

[edit] To Do — Iowa Legislators

Continue making sure that House terms are listed for senators - noting that Joe Seng's isn't.
Make sure that House terms are completed for representatives - Wayne Ford's isn't.
Make Iowa legislature articles footnote formatted.
Double-check senators who are listed as serving only 2-year terms - Eg. Amanda Ragan.
Do the "born"s in the article text.
Do the alma maters in the infobox.
Find out inauguration dates and replace term starts/ends with them. Keep an eye out for those whose terms really DO start or end in unusual years (special elections/resignations).
Check Project Vote Smart for additional information on officials elected since 2006 (and maybe even 2004).
According to Template talk:Infobox Officeholder, common name should be used in infoboxes. Fix it so that full name is used in article and common name in infobox. Leave explaination in "reason" spot.
Check Wally Horn and see if he served in the Iowa House before 1972.
Make sure headers are in place for current/former Speakers, President of the Senate, etc. As well as Majority/Minority leaders. Sample is done for Mary Lundby. Note that sample is only for template on bottom, not for inbox.
Create decent articles for elected Iowa Cabinet officials.
Add the external links from the Senators' to the Representatives' pages.

[edit] Custom Watchlists I Use

[edit] Templates I've Created

{{Narnia character}}
{{NarniaColor}} - companion template to {{Narnia character}} and to {{Infobox Narnia character}}
{{User WPIowa}}
{{Iowatasks}}
{{Project Iowa}}
{{Iowa-bio-stub}}
{{Current Iowa Senators}}
{{Current Iowa Representatives}}
{{User Iowa Flag}}
{{User copyvio}}

[edit] Talk Page Banners I Use

WikiProject Supreme Court Cases
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WikiProject Stargate
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Wikiproject Narnia
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WikiProject Biography
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WikiProject Iowa
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[edit] Template Test Area

Template test area

[edit] Notable Edits

1st Edit* - 07:34, 27 October 2005 (hist) (diff) SG1 (Created a Redirect) (top)
500th Edit - 21:17, 2 July 2006 (hist) (diff) m Talk:Schenck v. United States (SCOTUS tag)
1,000th Edit - 06:13, 31 July 2006 (hist) (diff) m Talk:United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez (SCOTUS tag) (top)
2,000th Edit - 03:47, 5 September 2006 (hist) (diff) m Talk:Seal of Iowa
3,000th Edit - 08:11, 12 September 2006 (hist) (diff) m User talk:John R G (talk page)
500th Mainspace Edit - 10:30, 6 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Ed Fallon (Integrating picture into template)
1,000th Mainspace Edit - 02:35, 27 March 2007 (hist) (diff) m Pollucite (Revert to the revision prior to revision 118203523 dated 2007-03-27 06:45:31 by Mikesnjail using popups) (top)
4,000th Edit - 19:04, 27 March 2007 (hist) (diff) m John Whitaker (For the other John Whitaker) (top)
5,000th Edit - 09:06, 3 July 2007 (hist) (diff) m Donovan Olson (updating templates, dates)
1,500th Mainspace Edit - 13:36, 12 July 2007 (hist) (diff) m Big Bertha (howitzer) (unreferenced in July) (top)
2,000th Mainspace Edit - 18:10, 23 March 2008 (hist) (diff) Ako Abdul-Samad‎ (completing template, infobox) (top)
6,000th Edit - 15:19, 17 April 2008 (hist) (diff) Charles Taylor Manatt‎ (infoboxing, categorizing) (top) [rollback]

*Edits listed only include edits to existing articles, made while logged in. It's interesting to note that from March 27, 2007 to May 31, 2007, my "4000th Edit" - to John Whitaker had dropped such that it had become my "3,984th Edit".

[edit] Quotable Quote

"Excuse me," said Ransom. "But it is funny, you know. The idea of a man thinking he could become a saint as a minor detail in his scientific training. You might as well imagine you could use the stairs of heaven as a short cut to the nearest tobacconist's. Don't you see that long before you had reached the level of timeless experience you would have had to become so interested in something else - or Someone Else - that you wouldn't be bothering about time-travel?" (DT1)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for helping me out with the picture setup on the Potential third party candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election. Glad to have that for future reference! Umdunno 02:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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